What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.

On the misty window of her room, she let her finger trace a broken line. She was that line.

We aren't just thrown on this earth like dice tossed across a table. We are lovingly placed here for a purpose

I won't be happy unless I finish Lyoto Machida.

You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.

To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

I think that as our country becomes more tolerant as a whole of certain things, hopefully becomes more tolerant, there's a way that certain kinds of bullying will be passe and unacceptable.

Smee, you are a supreme idjit." "Aye, Cap'n.

I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.